Rock concert, hearing damage wake up call

[w peterson]

I am sure that drugs help. Bill Peterson
----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Servinsky <tompiano@gate.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 2:38 PM
Subject: Rock concert, hearing damage wake up call


> List,
>  Attended a rock concert the other day at an outdoor festival. Actually
this
> is one of the few concerts I've attended in the past 20 yrs., where I was
> there only as an audience member and not working.
> Maybe I'm just getting older or maybe my hearing is becoming that much
more
> sensitive and accute, but as I approached the concert area the pounding of
> the decimals were defeaning.  My party had reserved seats in the 10th row
> from the stage and were so proud of the view. Me, I moved back to the far
> end of the area to protect my losses. Even with ear plugs, which I might
add
> I was the only one wearing any protection in our section, the sound is
> brutal.
> What I found absolutely amazing was the total disregard most rock concert
> goers still have toward protecting their hearing. They just sat there as
> though they were listening to a harpsicord concert and took the pounding
> like it was nothing.
> It's like the smoking issue, people know the harm yet they pretend the
> damage isn't going to occur.  What most still don't get is that in a short
2
> hr. window severe irreprepable hearing damage can occur.
> I know I'm preaching to the choir but this issue really is still not
> understood by the masses.
> Just my 2 cents
> Tom Servinsky,RPT
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